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Accomplish the objective and get the best out of myself!

This post has been edited 4 time(s), it was last edited by Hesticus: 27.01.2016 14:25.

Hello everyone and welcome to my (very first) blog!

My name is Hesticus and I have been around quite long in poker, however never too serious until last summer. I have read a couple of books and during some books it was going well and others not so well. I have suffered quite a downscale in my bankroll (from $200 to $100) and I know it is just bad play and maybe even tilt. Somehow, I like this game so much I do not want to give up. I still enjoy playing it, every moment. Therefore, I want to explore my options. I will show in this blog my full thinking, emotions, proud, shame, excitement, sadness and any other perception or emotion you can think of!

I am starting next September with my Master degree and am working now in Thailand. I have quite some time left for blogging and playing more poker during this time. I will also do broadcasting in which I hope you like to follow me! Feel free to give a comment (how my game sucked again or what a hero call I made
)

My goals are the following:

- Bankroll of $1,000 before 30th of June 2016
- I want to be back to a $200 bankroll by the end of January
- I want to play 5NL 6-handed after 40 BI ($150)
- I want to have read the following poker books by the end of March:
- Easy Game: Making Sense of No Limited Holdem, 3rd Edition
- The mental game of Poker by Jared Tendler LLC, 2011
- 1 other psychology and 1 book of mathematics, yet to find with the help of you guys!

As darkonebg has announced, I will post every Monday, starting from 4th of January. I also will message on other player's forum in addition on this forum where people might know me a bit already. I will use simply this hand converter to post my hands and will post not more than 3 hands per week for optimal analysis. I will post 2 times (mid of March and mid of June) a full analysis of my game with Holdem Manager to discuss where are my strengths and weaknesses.

This is it for now, I hope you all will enjoy it and also will support me as well as I hope to support you just as much as a return!

Concerning his stats he could be opening with a wide range. Not going into too much details, my questions:
1) Should I have 3-Bet him?
2) Should I have not paid him off OTR?
He had some SD combos but the Q was actually a good card for me. Let me know guys and we can discuss further on this hand, I would be happy to

This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by Hesticus: 07.01.2016 02:32.

OMG guys, yesterday I had a terrible evening! I started playing well but then a fish came at the table in which you would always say 'that is good news!'. However, I don't know what happened (actually, I think I do) but I was spewing chips and made such bad plays and was really really angry at myself.

I am quite ashamed of these hands but I post them anyway. I don't think it's necessarily a lack of skills, rather I think I have some kind of anxiety in which I just do not think anymore but just try to steal without asking myself 'why?'. In the second hand I clearly was on tilt and didn't think straight anymore.

I see 2 options to work on it:

1) Get a (mental) coach
2) Study the book Mental game of poker/read articles here on PS

Now, I don't have the money to get me a coach so I prefer to opt in for option 2.
What do you think guys?

Still quite confused since the numbers don't really add up, profit should be $4.99 if we compare last and current BR.

2 Screenshots of my progress:

As you can see, the graph is not yet steady, which suggests some leaks in my play. Most probably the downswing in the graph has to do with the hands I posted earlier here (see message 07.01.2016).
I got in touch now with Vonki and sent a Skype ID. I hope we can have a small chat somewhere this week and see what we can do and where I need to work on. Thank you very much for trying to help me out Vonki!

I think the call in the 2nd hand was BAD!
I made myself a rule: if i get confronted with a over potsize bet, i need to have a very good hand. This should probably most of the time be TwoPair+.
Here you definitively do not have the correct odds. You can try to put it in Equilab yourself. I just checked against one likely holding, which I put in as JdJc. I can imagine that villain raises pre, makes a cbet and then subsequently is too scared of potential river cards (flushes, straights, overcards) and so simply shoves.
You have 39% against that - it will not become any better unless you insert an unhealthy amount of bluffs. With calling much more than potsize, you need close to 50%.
To see a good thing about the hand, i would have played Pre&Postflop the same way, even though villains betsize on the flop is also not to my liking.

Villain had a tight opening range so I didn't put him on many hands. However, after his bet OTF I only had the idea that villain had big pocket pairs and suited connectors. All other hands in a mw pot didn't make sense. Therefore, the range I made is very very tight indeed. If anyone would say differently, please tell!

In this case, indeed, I have only 34.68% equity and should strongly reconsider my all-in EVs for many other hands since I did it before as well. I listen to your advice SvenBe and will work on this. Thanks, much appreciated!